Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America

by Jay Parini, Ken Ciongoli, A. Kenneth Ciongoli

Book Overview

Passage to Liberty recaptures the drama of the 19th and 20th century immigration to America through photos, letters, and other artifacts -- uniquely replicated in three-dimensional facsimile form. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060089024
• ISBN13: 9780060089023
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.1" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America

Excellent service, prompt delivery, excellent conditon as described, packaged well. Would use again.

Interesting

Cute book, with little samples of details from the early years of Italians in America. I only wish it had more information. Still worth the buy for those who collect Italian American books.

such a beautiful book

Not long after my grandmother's death, I went to a Borders store and was looking through the books on sale. I saw this lovely book and picked it up to leaf through it. The first page I opened the book to was the one with the little handwritten recipe. The recipe was unfamiliar to me, but the small neat handwriting was amazingly like my grandmother's, and the slip of paper it was written on was exactly like a page from one of the little notebooks she used to write in. I didn't have to look at another thing in the book to know I had to buy it. When I got the book home and actually read it, I LOVED IT! The book itself is really good, but all of the little bits that are tucked inside really make it worth the money. It's a lovely book.

Something you'll treasure

As you'd expect in a book like this, it tells the tale from Columbus to Madonna, and tells it well, concisely, entertainingly, without being annoyingly fulsome or reverent. What makes this a treaure, though, are all the surprises--you turn a page and find, actually tucked into a corner or attached by glue, replicas of ancient passports, or hand-written recipes, or coupon books from some old immigrant mutual-aid insurance policy. There's even a St. Lucia prayer card from somebody's funeral and the jury's verdict form from a trial of Al Capone. It brings the history to life in a way beyond mere words. If you buy one copy, you'll end up buying more as gifts, without a doubt.It's a beautiful object and a terrific book.